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Here's your weekly dose of the Knowledge Bottle Newsletter. You can think of this as a collection of links, a caffeine jolt of not just inspiration but also some tactical advice you can use.
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Standard e-books
Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book love.
Poe's law (not Edgar’s)
An adage of Internet culture stating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a parody of extreme views so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of the views being parodied
[60 fps] Views of Tokyo, Japan, 1913-1915
Upscaled with neural networks footage from the dawn of film taken in Tokyo, Japan from 1913-1915.
✔ FPS boosted to 60 frames per second, I have also fixed some playback speed issues;
✔ Faces are enhanced too – I have added to the pipeline of algorithms a neural network which is specially designed for facial restoration.
✔ Image resolution boosted up to 4k – with digital artifacts, but some parts are improved noticeably;
✔ Removed noise and fixed some damaged parts.
✔ Colorized – please, be aware that colorization colors are not real and fake, colorization was made only for the ambiance and do not represent real historical data.
Life Advice for 18 Year Olds (19 Lessons for Teenagers and Young Men)
The very people you call “friends for life” are the people you will forget about and barely speak to once you are no longer in each other’s physical proximity.
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The Strangest Recession In History | Zero Hedge
"Recessions don’t usually result in personal income soaring, but this one has thanks to government support around the world" Deutsche Bank's Jim Reid writes bringing attention to the following chart.
The Market Value of Life
Granted, rich people tend not to get sick because they have people for that.
The supermarkets were a mess as they swarmed in, complained about the lines, and shouted at people doing their jobs. The rich person made a calculation. They tried to determine on the spot what amount of money would make the other person give up their safety. It was 300 dollars.
We’ve Reached Peak Wellness. Most of It Is Nonsense
Another big issue with what passes for modern-day wellness is that it creates the impression that everyone is happy all the time and that you should be, too. But like selective sharing on social media, this is not the reality of being human. People get sad.
Why is there only one Elon Musk?
Why is there so much low-hanging fruit?
A few of my tweets from this week:
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Brain food
By relying on surveys “psychology of personality” often becomes “psychology of self-image”.
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